An intimate portrait of ex-Yugoslavian émigré artist Slobodan Dan Paich, Silent Crescendo follows his daily ritual of creating simple drawings with tea and ink. In response to the modern pace of the art scene, Mr. Paich has embraced these fluid works of art to express his searching approach to life.

Dorothée Royal-Hedinger is a producer at the Global Oneness Project, which produces and distributes films, media, and educational materials that challenge people to rethink their relationship to the world and connect them to our greater human potential. She lives in San Rafael, California.

I had a poem published in Thema that had the same interest in slow, quite art. Lovely portrait, Dorothee. My best, Charlotte Hart

Is it one line or three? Folded paper and ink in Tokyo.

Gently rock the tray in the water slowly up, back, side, side, up, back, side to side.Fibers float. Bark is now loosened from its self, yellow and brown grass swirl dissolvewater withering shape.

Dry and transformed the paper waits lying flat, one small hole where fibers meet thin.

American, Ethan Plaut studies the texture, the grain, the room of shape,the wabi-sabi top edge, a beach as seen from space burnt remnant brittle.

He waits, considers and touching the paper gently,feeling its attraction, reading its nature, he makes two folds and puts it down.

Kizu Taiboku holds the brush and watches the folded paper, waiting.The paper folds reach into hidden folds. Intimate and urgent he lifts the bamboo brushand the moment between life and death soft bristles of silver hairs dipped in blackloneliness chill.

I have never heard of anyone using tea and ink to create portraits. This is definitely a rare gift that she has got. I will surely refer this site to my friends as well. Thanks for sharing this information here or else I wouldn’t have known it. Keep up the good work guys.